In article , Paul
D.Smith writes

"Kay Easton" wrote in message
...

With bottom posting, or as someone here phrased it rather better, in-
line posting, what you see is first, enough of the original post to
remind you what the point is, then the response from the new poster. If
there are answers to several different points, then the respondent
answers each directly below the relevant point. So you have a sequence
of point 1, answer1, point 2 answer 2 ... rather as I have done here.

I think I see. So this is a bottom post, right?

Yes! :-)
But you could have improved it by snipping all but the most relevant
bits of text from the earlier posts - all you need to leave in is just
enough context to remind people what you're talking about.

Main problem I see is that
with a top post, I know where the most recent, and therefore useful,
information is - at the top of the mail. With bottom posting, the start of
the most recent information is at some unknown point up from the end of the
mail.

Ah, then that is a defect in your newsreader, or the way you have your
newsreader set up! I'm using Turnpike, which is one of the most commonly
used. When you hit 'reply' the test your responding to has a ''
inserted in front of it. And each previous repsonse has an extra '', so
you can tell who said what by how many ''s there are.

But even better - on screen, any text with one or more ''s is in red,
and only the most recent addition is in black. So I just home in on the
black text (and unless I know the poster to be one who makes valuable
additions, I often do not even bother to scroll down if I can't see any
black on the first screen)


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Kay Easton

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